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Brrr...it's a crisp 59 degrees in NC right now! Our high is targeted at 70 for today. Love fall temps.

Hometime, so sorry about your plumbing problems. Hope you will soon get it fixed and without paying out a fortune. Snakes....ick! I don't like them either! Too bad your dogs weren't around to take care of the snake. My son-in-law just told me Saturday that his dog eats snakes, well enough to kill them (poisonous/no poisonous ones). That's pretty neat!

 

personally i wouldn't want my dog near a poisonous snake. sure he may kill it, but it only takes one strike....

 

Looks like it's time to quit laying around acting the lazy, drunken bum (think it's an act), and turn into a Rock Star!!!! Oh, well dang!!!!!! That should've said... haul a load of rock star!!

 

Had a request to re-post the info on personal conveyance -

Under normal circumstances, all time spent at the controls operating a commercial vehicle must be logged as driving time (on-duty time if the driver is using one of the exceptions that allows the use of time records).
However, what happens with a driver is using his or her commercial vehicle as a personal vehicle to commute to or from a personal destination?
The concept of “off-duty driving time” is not actually in the regulations; however, it is discussed in the interpretations to Part 395. Interpretations are guidances published by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to provide a better understanding of the rules.

It can be done if you follow the rules

To be able to log personal conveyance time as off duty, there are several conditions that must be met. These conditions are the same whether a company driver is taking his/her company truck home or an owner-operator is taking his/her truck home (or to another personal destination).
First, you must be relieved of all responsibilities and conduct no on-duty activities. No work for the company is allowed during the personal conveyance. For example, you cannot bring the truck in for maintenance and call the trip personal conveyance.
Second, the trip and destination must be purely personal in nature. Moving to pick up your next load, bringing the truck into the terminal from your last destination, and running to the parts store for parts cannot be considered personal conveyance. You must be commuting to a personal destination, such as home, a restaurant, or a motel, and back.
Third, the vehicle must not be “laden.” In other words, you cannot be carrying any freight during the personal conveyance. If you drive a tractor trailer, this means not even pulling a trailer.
Fourth, you must not be “repositioning” the equipment. If you go from your company’s terminal to home, and then are dispatched to go get a trailer somewhere else, you have repositioned and cannot call the trip personal conveyance.
Fifth, you cannot be using the vehicle as a personal conveyance if you have been placed out of service for an hours-of-service violation.
Finally, the personal conveyance distance needs to be “reasonable.” You are not allowed to travel several hundred miles and call it personal conveyance. One definition of reasonable is, “Could the driver get 8 hours of sleep after arriving at the personal destination if the driver only took 10 hours off?” If the answer is no, then the distance may not be considered reasonable.
The Canadian regulations are a little more specific in this area. A driver in Canada cannot use the commercial vehicle for personal conveyance for more than 75 kilometers per day.
But they’re not paying me!

In certain situations, carriers may tell their drivers or owner-operators that they can just “head for home.” In many cases, when the carrier does this they do not pay the driver or owner-operator for their time or miles.
Does this change the situation? No, it does not. Pay is not a determining factor in whether a driver is on duty or off duty. The driver’s activity is what determines whether the driver should be logging on or off duty. If the driver is not relieved of all responsibilities, does work along the way, has a laden vehicle, or is repositioning equipment, the driver cannot claim the time is personal conveyance and the trip must be logged as on-duty and/or driving.
The only time pay is an issue when it comes to logging is if payroll records can prove that the driver was on duty. An example of this is paying a driver for loading or unloading. If the driver was specifically paid to load or unload, then the driver should have logged the time as on-duty time.
As you can see, there are several conditions that must be met to consider a trip with a commercial vehicle to be “personal conveyance.” The best advice is that when looking at the trip, if you are not sure you can meet one of the requirements, your best bet is to just keep logging the “regular” way.

 

I have goats at my property in the Philippines and we have killed 5 Cobra's but the goats have not been attacked that I know of.

Hate snakes myself

 

All of the old country folk always said that pigs were great to have. That pigs would kill snakes, even poisonous ones, and that they had such a layer of fat that even if a snake bit them it wouldn't hurt them. I don't know if that is true or not .....I'm afraid if I bought a pig my dogs would just see a giant pork chop!

Well, a miracle did not happen over night .....still have a drain line clogged up. I guess I get to call the plumber .....but I have to clean up the mess before I even call him! .....It's kind of like cleaning house before the housekeeper gets there!

 

Came over here to the Peelot (and it smells like it too) in Fort Pierce to get a shower, and do laundry. When I dropped the bag, the laundry detergent bottle cap broke and it leaked all over the inside of the bag. Washed the clothes in one washer, and the bag in the other. I forgot to pull the inkpens and newspaper so it got in the inside of the washer luckily, the ink stayed in the bag, but the paper shredded inside the bag and inside the washer. Threw the duffel away and hand cleaned the paper out of the washer drum. What a day. And still no load. Texted for permission to go to Orlando to visit my brother and was denied. Didnt think we loaded south of central Florida, so I didn't think it would be a big deal. What I get for thinking. Under 1500 miles for the week so far and not so much as preplan. The slump continues. Deuces..

 

Who knows you might be the first driver to pick up at a new account for them and they are just waiting to finalize details........ Then again they just might be having one of those brainfart moments.

 

Somebody help me!!! Have been kidnapped and being forced to watch a high school volleyball game!!!